To display an error while using Laravel Artisan the official Laravel 5.8 documentation says:
$this->error('Something went wrong!');
But what's the context of $this?
Following is the contents of the seeder class file:
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
class PopulateMyTable extends Seeder
{
public function run()
{
$this->info("Console should show this message");
}
}
You can do it by $this->command->method().
Where $this is this Seeder instance,
command is this seeder console Command instance,
and method() could be any of the command available output methods.
<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use App\User;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;
class UserSeeder extends Seeder
{
/**
* Run the database seeds.
*
* @return void
*/
public function run()
{
$message = 'sample ';
$this->command->info($message . 'info');
$this->command->line($message . 'line');
$this->command->comment($message . 'comment');
$this->command->question($message . 'question');
$this->command->error($message . 'error');
$this->command->warn($message . 'warn');
$this->command->alert($message . 'alert');
}
}
In seeders, you can access the output components using:
$this->command->outputComponents()->info('info message');
$this->command->outputComponents()->success('success message');
$this->command->outputComponents()->error('error message');
Now, the $command is defined as protected and it is not accessible through the seeders.
The $command is now defined as protected and is not accessible through the seeders.
May a simple PHP echo do the trick.
